Microwaveable Metals, Athlete Nature vs. Nurture, The House On The Rock, and Supernova-Skipping Stars
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Learn about what we discovered when astronomers watched a star turn directly into a black hole; new science into how much your genes determine your athleticism; why some materials shouldn’t go in the microwave; and one of the strangest places in the country: the House on the Rock.
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- Astronomers Once Watched a Star Turn Directly into a Black Hole
- The House on the Rock Is the Tourist Trap to End All Tourist Traps
- Are Some People Just Natural-Born Athletes? Science Has an Answer
Additional resources discussed:
- What Should and Shouldn't I Microwave? | Lifehacker
- Here's Why Fruit and Vegetables Spark in the Microwave
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we've got the latest and greatest from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about what we learned when astronomers watched a star turn directly into a black hole, new science into how much your genes determine |
| 0:15.2 | your athleticism, and one of the strangest places in the country, the House on the Rock. |
| 0:20.1 | We'll also answer a listener question about why some materials shouldn't go in the microwave. |
| 0:24.1 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:25.8 | Do you hear about the time astronomers watched a star turn directly into a black hole? |
| 0:29.7 | That's not the setup for a joke. It's a thing that happened between 2009 and 2015. |
| 0:34.8 | And it's an event that taught us more about stars and could help us uncover the |
| 0:38.6 | mysteries behind some of the universe's most massive black holes. |
| 0:41.9 | I want you to know. |
| 0:42.8 | I worked on this script for hours |
| 0:45.1 | trying to think of a punchline. |
| 0:46.7 | If that were a joke, I came up with nothing. |
| 0:49.3 | Oh. |
| 0:50.0 | If you do it off the top of your head, I will be so angry. |
| 0:52.9 | I don't know if something like, yeah, it was pretty heavy. |
| 0:56.0 | No. |
| 0:57.0 | That's, I'm gonna work shop it. |
| 0:59.8 | Yep, we're gonna work on that. |
| 1:01.8 | Let's continue. |
| 1:03.0 | Well, anyway, here's what went down. |
| 1:06.0 | Scientists at the Ohio State University were watching a galaxy 22 million light years away |
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